Word: blunderer
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...necessary to evaluate thoroughly American policy objectives in the Middle East to see that the Administration's program was handicapped by far more than public outcry. The President's last-ditch attempt to find a scapegoat for his fiasco betrays an awareness of the magnitude of his blunder...
...Tuchman, character is fate, and the characters who blunder through her book are ineluctably fatal to cause or country. The six Renaissance Popes Tuchman puts to the knife are old and easy targets, always diverting to re-examine for some moments of low humor or lofty dudgeon. The author may be a bit extravagant in her criticism, as when she says that Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia Pope, was "as close to the prince of darkness as human beings are likely to come." What then of Caligula? Or Stalin? Or Hitler? But she correctly upbraids the Pontiffs for squandering...
Mondale had such faith in his organization that he left it to operate on its own, abandoning New Hampshire two days before the vote to stump in neighboring primary states. As Mondale aides later acknowledged, the early exit was a blunder. It gave the impression that the front runner was so sure of success that he could let his minions mop up while he moved on to the next event. Hart, meanwhile, was shaking every New Hampshire hand in sight. On Monday he drew such a huge entourage of television crews on Elm Street, the main drag of Manchester, that...
...government will have to bail them out if worse comes to worse. Attached to the recent emergency Congressional approbation for the International Monetary Fund were new regulations concerning just that. Congress should be ready and willing to go farther, much farther if necessary, to forestall a similar blunder by the nation's private banks in the future. The expectation by these bankers that they will be bailed out after their mistake achieves new heights of private-sector hypocrisy. For the present, though, all the American people can do is hope--that the very same bank executives who squandered a huge...
Moscow's muddled handling of the event illustrated the lack of sharp command at the top. Andropov was said to be on vacation at the time. But as the Soviet military covered its blunder by charging that the U.S. had attempted aerial espionage, the Kremlin suffered heavy damage to its international standing...